He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEChristianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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